Multi-Specialist Interest Groups

Our barrister members, drawn from various core areas of practice, also work collaboratively in special multi specialist interest and practice groups to better service the diverse needs of our clients. See:

Quality of Work

With 105 barrister members, including 11 QCs, 36 Bedford Row has a proven track record of quality work.

Members regularly appear in high profile cases in the High Court, the Crown Court, the Court of Appeal (Civil and Criminal Divisions) and in the Supreme Court of the UK – and do so across the range of specialist areas of legal practice.

Over the last three years alone, our members have appeared in the Supreme Court in cases involving Family law, Consumer Law, European Union law, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Immigration law, Mental Health law, Employment law and Property law. Two of our members are currently involved in a case pending in the Supreme Court on the Mobile Homes Act 1983.

The services of our family barristers are sought from overseas jurisdictions, including the Channel Islands and Hong Kong.

Contributions to Domestic and International Law

For well over a century, members of these Chambers have figured prominently as barristers in UK domestic law. More recently, similar contributions have been made to the development of international criminal and human rights law.

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Recent appearances by members of 36 Bedford Row in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal (Civil and Criminal Divisions) have played a part in shaping domestic law across diverse specialist practice areas.

The determination shown by 36 Bedford Row practitioners in challenging existing legal orthodoxies or lower court decisions, in order to obtain a just result for their clients – clients who have variously been individuals, institutions or corporate bodies.

Since the late 1990s, several members have been involved in a number of international criminal human rights tribunals in Europe, Asia and Africa, and at The Hague.

In 2012, a former member of Chambers was elected from the Group of Western European and other States to sit as a judge in the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

A current member of Chambers was recently appointed by the Jersey State Authority to conduct an important Public Inquiry into events at Haut de la Garenne children’s home.

Furthermore, there is an increasing contribution by members of 36 Bedford Row, across practice fields, to the authorship of books for the profession. To see our members’ publications, click here.

Support Services

The 36 Group have three practice managers who lead their respective teams on business development. They are vigilant in assisting members provide the services required by our professional and lay clients.

Strong specialist clerking teams guided by the Practice Managers are also there to assist our clients in finding the right barrister for a particular case. Our clerks are friendly and approachable, and ready to assist where they can.

Chambers is also supported by three further teams, specialising in Fees, Finance and Administration respectively.